Visitors to next month’s Skipton Waterway Festival will be bussed in from the outskirts of town.
Thousands of visitors expected at the three-day May bank holiday event will be brought into the town from Skipton Auction Mart at the top of Gargrave Road.
And the £3,600 cost of the park-and-ride scheme will be paid for by Bradford-based Yorkshire Water, whose ongoing work in much of the Coach Street car park threatened the success of the popular annual event.
A company spokesman said a meeting had taken place between Pennine Cruisers, organisers of the event, and the town council.
“We have agreed to fund a park-and-ride facility for the Waterway Festival in May to try to reduce disruption from our scheme in Coach Street car park,” he said.
This year, the 12th annual event, which had been under threat, will have cartoons as its theme.
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